From The Huffington Post
By Trey Ellis

Oil. Black Gold. Texas Tea.

Though every thinking person suspects it, it seems that the only ones talking about it openly are those of us who have been suspicious of the rationale(s) for this war from the beginning. Big Oil and Halliburton feed on chaos and instability and today, thanks to the Bush Administration, their bellies are fit to bust.

Gas prices are now so high that some people, especially in rural areas, cannot afford to leave their homes. The instability from the three-year train-wreck that is Iraq and Bush’s clumsy saber rattling against Iran and Venezuela are some of the main reasons for today’s punishing oil prices (The riots in Nigeria are also a factor so you can’t blame absolutely everything on our incompetent commander-in-chief.)

This is the perfect issue for mainstream Democrats to raise as a club with which to drive the Republicans into the sea. Every time any Democrat mentions the President or Vice President they need to preface their names with “oilman.” Every time voters fill up at the pumps they need to be reminded to curse oilmen Bush, Cheney and their buddy, outgoing Exxon CEO Lee Raymond who raked in $144,573 a day. The evidence that this war was planned from the very beginning as a long-term grab at Middle Eastern oil is inescapable and ever mounting.

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